Potica

This is a recipe for Slovene traditional dessert. We prepare it for Christmas and Easter.

Ingredients:
- 1 kg of flour
- ½ l of milk
- 10 dag of sugar
- 12 dag of butter
- 1 small spoon of salt
- 2 spoons of rum
- 1 spoon of fat
- 2 egg yolks
- 3 dag of yest
Put the yeast into the warm water. Mix the warm milk, the sugar the butter, salt and the flour together. Add the yeast and the yolks. Add a spoon of fat, then mix and knead into smooth dough. Cover it with a clean cloth and leave in warm place for a while. Roll out the dough. Put the filling on the dough and roll together. Put in the baking tin and leave it rise for a while, then apply the mixture of cream and eggs on the top and bake in an oven.
Prepare the filling from:
- 3-5 dl of milk
- 2 spoons of honey
- 15-30 dag of sugar
- 50 dag of ground walnuts
- 2 spoons of breadcrumbs
- 10 dag of butter
- lemon peel
- a pinch of cinnamon
Mix the ground walnuts, the sugar and honey together. Pour hot milk over the mixture and add butter, lemon peel and cinnamon. When it cools down, add the egg yolks and the rum and some breadcrumbs.